In the war
of Troy, the Greeks having sacked some of the neighbouring towns, and taken
from thence two beautiful captives, Chryseis and Briseis, allotted the first to
Agamemnon, and the last to Achilles. Chryses, the father of Chryseis, and
priest of Apollo, comes to the Grecian camp to ransom her; with which the
action of the poem opens, in the tenth year of the siege. The priest being
refused, and insolently dismissed by Agamemnon, entreats for vengeance from his
god; who inflicts a pestilence on the Greeks. Achilles calls a council, and
encourages Chalcas to declare the cause of it; who attributes it to the refusal
of Chryseis. The king, being obliged to send back his captive, enters into a
furious contest with Achilles, which Nestor pacifies; however, as he had the absolute
command of the army, he seizes on Briseis in revenge. Achilles in discontent
withdraws himself and his forces from the rest of the Greeks; and complaining
to Thetis, she supplicates Jupiter to render them sensible of the wrong done to
her son, by giving victory to the Trojans. Jupiter, granting her suit, incenses
Juno: between whom the debate runs high, till they are reconciled by the
address of Vulcan.
The iliad opens in an unexpected way if you
had only heard the common myth concerning it.
the ancient Greeks
had attacked towns and were in siege tGn years from the Greeks of these towns,
both women who represented teh taking of these cities were considered bueatiful
like Helen of Greece, but unlike Paris taking Helen here the Greeks who help retrieve
her are guilty of doing the same as Paris ahead of Paris. The siege is not against troy ibn dact the
daughter of one city who was given to Achilles as wither( wife) had her father
and the appoloen priest come to beseech and ransom them back.
Did the Greeks
under Agamemnon have a right to sack the cities these women were from, these
cities are city states. Refusal of the
father’s plea and the priests caused prayers and actions that led to a
pestilence that caused many to believe the Gods were not on the Greek side. A meeting is called by Achilles who was also in
charge of eth greek army. The council of
Greek states was declared by charkas to be concerned with the issue of Chryseis
the women that was to be Achilles wither.
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